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Show Hoist Operator Dies at His Post ROCK SPRINGS, VVyo., June 21 w: Engineer William Powell Pow-ell wr.s bringing 100 workmen out of the Union Pacific Coal Mine No. 4 late yesterday on a train of ten cars. The cars are drawn to the surface by a hoist. As they neared the siirface the miners noticed that Powell failed fail-ed to slow the cars down as' he usually did for an inside rail switch. As the train approached the end of the tipple without losing speed the men began jumping-. The cars, with only the engineer aboard, crashed through the end of the tipple and dropped drop-ped to the ground, 40 feet be-1 low. Physicians said Powell died of a heart attack, apparently as the cars started up the incline. . |